The latest production and alpha releases are available from the modules/by-authors/Nick_Ing-Simmons/ directory on the CPAN. If building from source code you will need a made and installed perl (Perl 5.005 or later being an excellent choice), a recent MakeMaker and the Tk kit. To obtain all of these (as well as several other modules that sophisticated Tk programs now rely on) visit a CPAN ftp site. CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) and what you need to get from it, is discussed in more detail in the next question.
ActiveState Corporation has taken over the chore of maintaining what originated as Gurusamy Sarathy's binary distribution for WinNT, Win95, Win98, and Win2000. [Mention license considerations here?] This is what you must do to "use Tk" with ActivePerl:
1. Download and install version 1.1 or greater of the Windows Installer (while the installation claims a reboot is necessary, Cameron Laird found it not to be so for WinNT); 2. Download the ActivePerl 618 distribution: 3. From Windows Explorer, activate the distribution just downloaded [what's the command-line way?]. This installs ActivePerl; 4. From a command line, invoke ppm install Tk; 5. At this point, you can perl -e "use Tk" from a command line, and you're ready to code Perl/Tk source.
Jon Bjornstad gives more details about the process, some of which you might particularly need if you work with ActivePerl before release 618.
(While the next question treats CPAN in detail, the remainder of this answer points out some non CPAN resources, as well as some historical resources.)
Tk-b8: The Tk-b8 kit remains on CPAN since it was compatible with the widely distributed and installed Perl (5.001m) Binaries
A pre-compiled binary distribution of Perl5.001m with Tk-b8 for Linux is available from: Australia (please be patient and only try during off hours) ftp://syd.dit.csiro.au/pub/perl5/local/perl5.001m Tk-b8-Linux-ELF.tar.gz
It unpacks into /usr/local. You need to have ELF running and to have the ELF X11 libraries (please be patient and only try during off hours).
Binaries for the old Perl 5 & Tk-b6 are available for a number of UNIX platforms courtesy of Thomas Schlagel and Alan Stange of Brookhaven Lab at: USA http://pubweb.bnl.gov/"ptk/
Thomas and Alan have recently (winter 1995-1996) announced that they will update the Tk module version number of the many binaries they distribute. Physical media (mostly source code)
With traffic jams on today's information superhighway more and more common it is often convenient to be able to snail mail a Read Only Memory Compact Disk rather than suffer with .tar.gz files that are corrupted by network spottiness. Here is a very brief list of some folks who distribute perl (and hopefully Tk too!) on physical media. This list is not intended to be complete, nor an endorsement of any vendor (I personally do not have the time to check out any of these but have noticed that some tend to be a few months out of date with respect to CPAN so please be careful). See the hypertext version of this document for hyperlinks to the following vendors:
Perl Developer's Toolkit from Advice Press; 366 Cambridge Ave.; Palo Alto, CA 94306 ISBN: 1-889671-15-0 $39.95, is also available via a subscription plan. This CD is organized by Jon Orwant (the organizer of comp.lang.perl.tk and the publisher of The Perl Journal. Walnut Creek Perl CD from Walnut Creek CDROM; 4041 Pike Lane, Suite E; Concord, CA 94520 This CD specifies a release date. $39.95 Cosmos Engineering Company Offers Linux plus perl for sale on a 1 Gigabyte IDE hard drive for PC-like computers. $279.00 (Fall 1996) Unix Review System Administration A CD that contains "Perl 5.0" (and much other stuff including Tcl/Tk and Expect) for $49.95. Telephone: (800) 444-4881. InfoMagic Mother of Perl This 2 CD set contains perl 5.001 and sells for $35.00 Ready to Run Perl (unknown version) available for sale for many types of Unix and other operating systems.
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